Nietzsche Untimely Meditations

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521585842
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four short works in Untimely Meditations were published by Nietzsche between 1873 and 1876.They deal with such broad topics as the relationship between popular and genuine culture, strategies for cultural reform, the task of philosophy, the nature of education, and the relationship between art, science and life. They also include Nietzsche's earliest statement of his own understanding of human selfhood as a process of endlessly 'becoming who one is'. As Daniel Breazeale shows in his introduction to this new edition of R. J. Hollingdale's translation of the essays, these four early texts are key documents for understanding the development of Nietzsche's thought and clearly anticipate many of the themes of his later writings. Nietzsche himself always cherished his Untimely Meditations and believed that they provide valuable evidence of his 'becoming and self-overcoming' and constitute a 'public pledge' concerning his own distinctive task as a philosopher.

Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253023157
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpretation of Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation written by Martin Heidegger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “readable and fluent” translation of a work that demonstrates a crucial shift in Heidegger’s approach to Nietzsche in the late 1930s (Phenomenological Reviews). In Nietzsche’s Second Untimely Meditation, Martin Heidegger offers a radically different reading of a text that he had read decades earlier. This evolution in his relationship with Nietzsche has a significant impact on his understandings of the differences between animals and humans, temporality and history, and the Western philosophical tradition developed. With his new reading, Heidegger delineates three Nietzschean modes of history, which should be understood as grounded in the structure of temporality or historicity. He also offers a metaphysical determination of life and the essence of humankind. Despite the fragmentary and disjointed quality of the original lecture notes that comprise this text, Ullrich Hasse and Mark Sinclair deliver a clear and accessible translation.

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465515216
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thoughts out of Season (Complete) written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Strauss: The Confessor and the Writer written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Strauss: the Confessor and the Writer" attacks David Strauss's "The Old and the New Faith: A Confession," which Nietzsche holds up as an example of the German thought of the time. He paints Strauss's "New Faith"— a scientifically-determined universal mechanism based on the progression of history—as a vulgar reading of history in the service of a degenerate culture. Nietzsche polemically attacks not only the book but also Strauss as a Philistine of pseudo-culture.

Author : Shilo Brooks
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319615211
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche’s Culture War written by Shilo Brooks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche’s Untimely Meditations. It argues that the four Meditations—which Nietzsche said “deserve the greatest attention for my development”—are not separate pieces, but instead form a unified philosophic narrative that constitutes his first attempt to diagnose and cure the spiritual ailments whose causes he traced to modern culture and science. Taking Nietzsche’s commentary on the four essays in his autobiographical work Ecce Homo as its interpretive guide, this book also shows that the Untimely Meditations contain early expositions of concepts like the last man, the overman, the new philosopher, the creation of values, and the malleability of nature—all staples of his later philosophy.

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781983689000
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schopenhauer As Educator written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, using a distinctive style and displaying a fondness for aphorism. Nietzsche s influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism. Nietzsche's Third Untimely Meditation is not only his homage to Schopenhauer, but a reflection on education in the most comprehensive sense. Many of Nietzsche's writings aimed at instructing the modern world on how to philosophize with a sledgehammer, but the premise of the Third Meditation is altogether more gentle, namely the singular marvel that is every human being.

Author : Gregory Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113943294X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor written by Gregory Moore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor explores the German philosopher's response to the intellectual debates sparked by the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. By examining the abundance of biological metaphors in Nietzsche's writings, Gregory Moore questions his recent reputation as an eminently subversive and (post-) modern thinker, and shows how deeply Nietzsche was immersed in late nineteenth-century debates on evolution, degeneration and race. The first part of the book provides a detailed study and interpretation of Nietzsche's much disputed relationship to Darwinism. Uniquely, Moore also considers the importance of Nietzsche's evolutionary perspective for the development of his moral and aesthetic philosophy. The second part analyzes key themes of Nietzsche's cultural criticism - his attack on the Judaeo-Christian tradition, his diagnosis of the nihilistic crisis afflicting modernity and his anti-Wagnerian polemics - against the background of fin-de-siècle fears about the imminent biological collapse of Western civilization.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781534693241
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Untimely Meditations (Thoughts Out of Season Parts I and II) written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superb edition of The Untimely Meditations by Friedrich Nietzsche contains the compelling translations of Anthony Ludovici and Adrian Collins. These early writings by Nietzsche displays much of the promise which was to unfurl later in the philosopher's life. These four essays, all different in subject and tone yet tangentially related, are also known by the title Thoughts Out of Season, and were originally published in two parts between 1873 and 1876. In each essay, Nietzsche examines aspects of modern culture and art. In the first, third and final essays he singles out a single personage as representative or influential upon of the present day, subjecting each to a philosophic critique. The first two essays are openly polemical and critical, whilst the final two offer a non-hostile and complimenting tone, with parts praising their subjects. The first essay, David Strauss: the Confessor and the Writer, sees Nietzsche polemically and scathingly criticise the theologian and author David Strauss, in considering Strauss's 1871 work The Old and the New Faith: A Confession as symptomatic of contemporary German thought. He then goes further, attacking Strauss as appropriating history in service of pseudo-cultural ends. The second essay, On the Use and Abuse of History for Life, has Nietzsche present a new and novel way of reading history, and attempts to discredit the idea that man is merely a product of the history which has so far happened. The essay exemplifies the growing attitude of elitism which would become more obvious in Nietzsche's later works. In the third essay, Schopenhauer as Educator, Nietzsche praises and lauds the philosopher Schopenhauer and suggests that a revival in thought would likely occur thanks to this philosopher and his fine ideas. As well as what he wrote, Nietzsche praises the attitude which Schopenhauer had to life - jovial, forthright and honest, if pessimistic. In the final essay, Richard Wagner in Bayreuth, Nietzsche examines the life and works of his contemporary - the composer Richard Wagner. At the time it was published, Nietzsche praising attitude to Wagner was changing - yet a friend, Peter Gast, saw value in its words and persuaded him to redraft and publish it. However some time after its publication, Nietzsche would split from Wagner and the two would conclude their friendship.

Author : Marcus Steinweg
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262534355
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inconsistencies written by Marcus Steinweg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditations, aphorisms, maxims, notes, and comments construct a philosophy of thought congruent with the inconsistency of our reality. Those who continue to think never return to their point of departure. —Inconsistencies These 130 short texts—aphoristic, interlacing, and sometimes perplexing—target a perennial philosophical problem: Our consciousness and our experience of reality are inconsistent, fragmentary, and unstable; God is dead, and our identity as subjects discordant. How can we establish a new mode of thought that does not cling to new gods or the false security of rationality? Marcus Steinweg, as he did in his earlier book The Terror of Evidence, constructs a philosophical position from fragments, maxims, meditations, and notes, formulating a philosophy of thought that expresses and enacts the inconsistency of our reality. Steinweg considers, among other topics, life as a game (“To think is to play because no thought is firmly grounded”); sexuality (“wasteful, contradictory, and contingent”); desire (”Desire has a thousand names; It's earned none of them”); reality (“overdetermined and excessively complex”); and world (“a nonconcept”). He disposes of philosophy in one sentence (“Philosophy is a continual process of its own redefinition.”) but spends multiple pages on “A Tear in Immanence,” invoking Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and others. He describes “Wandering with Foucault” (“Thought entails wandering as well as straying into madness”) and brings together Derrida and Debord. He poses a question: “Why should a cat be more mysterious than a dog?” and later answers one: “Beauty is truth because truth is beauty.” By the end, we have accompanied Steinweg on converging trains of thought. “Thinking means continuing to think,” he writes, adding “But thinking can only pose questions by answering others.” The question of inconsistency? Asked and answered, and asked.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521599634
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche: Daybreak written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of this important work of Nietzsche's 'mature' philosophy.